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This is the story of american airlines flight 625. On the 27th of april 1976 an american airlines 727 was making the flight from providence rhode island to st thomas in the US virgin islands in with a stopver at JFK international in new york. Flight 625 departed JFK at noon right on the dot with 88 passengers and 7 crew members on board. As flight 625 left newyork behind the crew took the 727 up to her cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. Within a while the plane was nearing the US virgin islands the crew started to go thought the pre descent checklist. After that they started to take the plane down. On their way down the flight engineer was busy preparing a landing card for the captain. This nice little card had all the information that the captain would need to get the plane on the ground safely, like the planes weight which was 125,000 pounds or about 60 tons and the speed that the captain had to hit on the approach. He also had things like flap settings and engine settings on that card. All important information when landing a plane. At 3:04 pm the captain of the plane decided to cancel the IFR plan that was filed and decided to go VFR. If you dont know IFR stands for instrument flight rules and its basically when you fly your plane by your instruments, VFR on the other hand stands for visual flight rules. You look out and you fly the plane visually. You cant do VFR if the weather is too bad. But in this case even though the plane was now under VFR rules the captain still opted to use the ILS to get the plane on the runway safely. The ILS is this radio beacon that guides the plane all the way down to the runway. In this case the plane had horizontal guidance but not vertical guidance. With all the information and logistics taken care of the pilots intercepted the glideslope at 1500 feet. As the plane slowed down the pilots brought out the flaps and gear. With the approach well under way the tower got in contact with flight 625 and informed them of the winds at the airport the winds were coming in from 120 degrees at 12 knots. That weather is not bad at all. The pilots were almost at the airport the first officer said A 1000 feet plus 20 sink 6. The first officer kept calling out the altitude of the plane as they droped. The plane was almost at the speed that they were supposed to be at and they were on the glidelsope. This landing looked solid. They now just had to get this plane on the ground. The captain pulled back power on the engines and the plane floated down to the runway, he then flared the nose of the plane to touch down smoothly and then started the turbulence. The pilots were not expecting turbulence this far down the runway and this close to the ground. The turbulence was so bad that the right wing dropped, the wing dropped so low that they thought that the wing might hit the ground. The first officer noted that the plane was a bit too high but with some effort the captain got the plane on the ground. But as soon as the plane landed the captain realized something scary they did not have enoug runway for them to stop. So right as the plane touched down the captain called for a go around and the throttles were advanced to max power. But for some reason the engines were not responding the plane was not picking up speed,the captain looked at the EPR gauges and they were not moving. At this point the pilots were starting to freak out a bit. In the words of the captain they werent going anywhere. So thinking that the plane was not responding to his inputs he pulled back power on the engines and slammed on the brakes. But they had too much speed this plane was not slowing down, they now just had 600 feet of runway left and they were eating up that runway very very quikcly. Then their luck ran out. Plane ran into the ILS antennas and then The plane burst through a chain link fence. With that the plane crossed a road, heres the problem they now had a gas station right in their path. But unfortunately they were carrying way too much speed for the 727 to stop in time. The plane went right into the gas station after striking an embankment and into a car that was filling up at the time. Of the 88 people on board 37 people did not